PSY 223 Lecture 7: lec 7
Schedule
➢ Student tapes
➢ Personality
➢ 16 PF
➢ Projectives
Definition
➢ Personality comes from the Greek work persona –which referred to a role play by an
actor in a play
➢ Difficult construct to define and measure
➢ Assessment of personality been around for thousands of years
➢ However, field of formal psychological assessment is less than 100 years old
Personality Research Increasing
➢ Butcher (1995) cited three reasons why upsurge in last 20 years
Increased research on the use of personality assessment
Personality assessment is more attractive to professionals than it was in the past
Increased use of personality assessment in forensic and industrial settings
Types of Personality Assessments
➢ Formal
Structured personality instruments
• MMPI
• 16 PF
• NEO-PI-R
• MBTI
Projective techniques
• Roschach
• TAT
➢ Informal
Observation
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Document Summary
Personality comes from the greek work persona which referred to a role play by an actor in a play. Assessment of personality been around for thousands of years. However, field of formal psychological assessment is less than 100 years old. Butcher (1995) cited three reasons why upsurge in last 20 years. Increased research on the use of personality assessment. Personality assessment is more attractive to professionals than it was in the past. Increased use of personality assessment in forensic and industrial settings. Structured personality instruments: mmpi, 16 pf, neo-pi-r, mbti. Client is off for same or other possibilities. Split-half: split the session in half. Record observations at specific intervals during a session and comparing them: receive training. Stattler (1993) found that reliability can be increased in observation when there are clear and precise definitions of behaviors and a systematic method of observing. When counselors are observing, they need to consider the representativeness and generalizability of their observation (stattler, 1993).
